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Fernando Scherer
Fernando de Queiroz Scherer, 'Xuxa' (born 1974, Florianópolis), Brazilian sprint swimmer; two Olympic bronzes (50 m free Atlanta 1996, 4x100 m free relay Sydney 2000), short-course 4x100 m relay world records, retired 2007. Not Fernando Scheffer.
Fernando T. Maestre
Fernando T. Maestre, born in Sax, Spain, in 1976, is a Spanish dryland ecologist and professor at KAUST who built the first global field networks studying dryland degradation.
Fernando Tatís
Fernando Tatís (Fernando Gabriel Tatís), nicknamed El Niño, is a Dominican professional baseball player for the San Diego Padres, born in 1999 in San Pedro de Macorís.
Fernando Tatís Jr.
Fernando Tatís Jr. (El Niño), born 1999, Dominican MLB star for the San Diego Padres; son of Fernando Tatis. $340M contract, 2022 clostebol suspension, Gold/Platinum Gloves in right field, 2026 move to second base.
Fernando Torres
Fernando Torres, Spanish striker (El Niño), Atlético, Liverpool, Chelsea, Milan, Sagan Tosu; Euro 2008 final winner, 38 Spain goals, 81 Liverpool goals, £50m Chelsea move, now Atlético Madrid B coach to 2027.
Fernando Valenzuela
Fernando Valenzuela (1960-2024), Mexican left-handed pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers; in 1981 became the only player to win Rookie of the Year and Cy Young in the same season, sparking Fernandomania; number 34 retired 2023.
Fernando Vallejo
Fernando Vallejo, full name Fernando Vallejo Rendón, is a Colombian novelist, essayist, and filmmaker who left Colombia in 1971, known for Our Lady of the Assassins and his critique of Colombian society.
Fernando Vargas
Fernando Vargas, "Ferocious" (born 1977, Oxnard, California), American boxer, 1996 Olympian, IBF and WBA light-middleweight champion, youngest 154-pound titleholder at 21; lost to Trinidad, De La Hoya, Mosley; 2020 Nevada Boxing Hall of Famer.
Fernando Verdasco
Fernando Verdasco, Spanish left-handed tennis player (Madrid), pro 2001-2025; career-high No. 7, seven ATP titles, 559 wins, three Davis Cups, and the 2009 Australian Open five-set semifinal loss to Nadal.
Fernando VII
Fernando VII (1784–1833) was King of Spain, proclaimed in 1808 after his father Carlos IV abdicated, who renounced his crown to Napoleon, was restored in 1814, and died in 1833.
Fernando Zóbel
Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo (1924–1984) was a Spanish-Filipino abstract painter, collector, and museum founder who moved to Madrid in 1961 and founded the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español in Cuenca.
FernandoCosta
FernandoCosta (Fernando Costa Morales, born 1995 in Ibiza) is a Spanish rapper raised between Ibiza and Granada, prominent in the Spanish rap scene since 2018.
Fernanfloo
Fernanfloo (Luis Fernando Flores Alvarado), Salvadoran YouTuber and streamer born 1993 in San Salvador; comedic gaming channel created May 2011 with over 50 million subscribers; fought Luzu and Plex in Ibai Llanos's La Velada del Año boxing events.
Fernão Cardim
Fernão Cardim (c. 1548–1625) was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary and chronicler who worked in colonial Brazil from 1583 and wrote early descriptions of its land and indigenous inhabitants.
Fernão Carrilho
Fernão Carrilho (c. 1640 – c. 1703) was a Portuguese colonial soldier and sertanista who fought fugitive-slave communities in northeastern Brazil and led three expeditions against the Quilombo dos Palmares.
Fernão Dias Pais
Fernão Dias Pais (1608–1681) was a Paulista bandeirante, born near São Paulo, who led the seven-year emerald-hunting expedition of 1674–1681 that opened Minas Gerais to settlement; the stones he found were tourmalines.
Fernão do Pó
Fernão do Pó, also spelled Fernando Po, was a Portuguese navigator who discovered the island now called Bioko around 1471 and explored the Wouri estuary, naming it Rio dos Camarões, origin of the name Cameroon.
Fernão Gomes de Lemos
Fernão Gomes de Lemos, Portuguese diplomat, was Afonso de Albuquerque's third ambassador to Safavid Shah Esmāʿīl I, sent from Hormuz in May 1515 to negotiate an anti-Mamluk treaty; the audience near Tabriz produced no agreement.
Fernão Mendes Pinto
Fernão Mendes Pinto (c. 1509–1583) was a Portuguese adventurer and travel writer whose memoir Peregrinação recounts twenty-one years of travel, trade, and slavery in Asia.
Fernão Nuniz
Fernão Nuniz, also written Fernão Nunes, was a Portuguese Jewish horse trader who lived in Vijayanagara from 1535 to 1537 and wrote a chronicle of the empire.
Ferncliff Cemetery
Ferncliff Cemetery refers to two unrelated US cemeteries: an 1863 cemetery and arboretum in Springfield, Ohio, and the Ferncliff Cemetery Association (1902) in Hartsdale, New York, with three mausoleums and notable burials.
Ferncliff Farm
Ferncliff Farm, also called the Green Springs Historic District property, is a c. 1880 brick farmhouse on Route 613 near the South Anna River in Louisa County, Virginia, documented as HABS VA-1225 within NRHP district 73002036.
Ferne McCann
Ferne McCann, also Ferne Alice McCann, is an English reality TV personality from Essex, known for The Only Way Is Essex (2013–2016), I'm a Celebrity 2015 third place, and her ITVBe series First Time Mum, later My Family and Me.
Fernery
Fernery: a garden, building, or glass container for growing ferns, also called a filicetum. Flourished under Victorian pteridomania (Kingsley, 1855); notable survivors include Morris Arboretum's 1899 fernery and Sydney's 1993 fernery.
Fernet
Fernet is a bitterly unsweetened Italian herbal liqueur style within amaro, launched by Fernet-Branca in Milan in 1845 (Vittone claims 1842). Argentina drinks about 75 percent of global output, mixed with cola as fernet con coca.
Fernet-Branca
Fernet-Branca, the original fernet amaro created in Milan in 1845 by apothecary Bernardino Branca for Fratelli Branca Distillerie; a 39% ABV bitter liqueur with a secret 27-botanical recipe, famous in Argentina as fernet con coca.
FernGully: The Last Rainforest
FernGully: The Last Rainforest is a 1992 animated musical fantasy directed by Bill Kroyer, about fairies, logger Zak, and pollution spirit Hexxus; grossed over US$65 million and screened at the UN Earth Summit.
Fernride
Fernride GmbH was a Munich startup, founded in 2019, that built autonomous electric yard trucks driven by Level 4 software with remote human teleoperation; Quantum Systems acquired it in 2025.
Ferns and fern allies of Great Britain and Ireland
The ferns and fern allies of Great Britain and Ireland are the islands' spore-bearing vascular plants, about 72 to over 100 species including horsetails and lycophytes.
Ferns and lycophytes of the United States
The ferns and lycophytes of the United States are the country's spore-bearing vascular plants: about 513 species in 407 ferns and 106 lycophytes, richest in warm, wet regions like Texas.